The Hon Mr Justice David Barniville
President of the High Court,
Ireland
The Hon. Mr Justice David Barniville has been President of the High Court of Ireland since July 2022 and is an ex officio member of the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court, and the Council of State.
He was appointed a judge of the High Court in December 2017, following almost 27 years in practice as a barrister and Senior Counsel in the Irish and European Courts. He served as judge in charge of the Commercial Division (2019–2021) and previously the Strategic Infrastructure List (2018–2019) and is designated Arbitration Judge for the High Court. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in August 2021.
Mr Justice Barniville is a member of the Board of the Courts Service and of the Judicial Council and is Chair of the Finance Committee of the Courts Service and of its Investment Committee. He is also a member of the recently established Judicial Appointments Commission (having been a member of its predecessor body, the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board, from 2014-2016 and 2022-2024).
President Barniville served as President of the Association of Judges of Ireland (2019–2021) and Chair of the Judges Forum of the International Bar Association (2022–2024), where he now sits on the Advisory Board. He is a judicial fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers.
Prior to his judicial appointment, he chaired the Council of the Bar of Ireland (2014–2016) and Irish Rule of Law International (2015–2019). He was a member of the Bars of Ireland and of England and Wales, and is a Bencher of the King’s Inns, Dublin, and of Middle Temple, London.
Susan Ahern SC
Vice President of Arbitration Ireland/The Bar of Ireland
Susan is a Senior Counsel, international arbitrator, Fellow of the CIArb and AMINZ, and accredited mediator. She is a Council Member of The Bar of Ireland, a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport and of the EC (DG-TRADE) Disputes Settlement Panel, and a member of the ICSID Panel of Conciliators. Susan regularly sits as an arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional commercial arbitrations, and as mediator in commercial and sports contexts.
Ruth Byrne KC
King & Spalding LLP,
London
Ruth Byrne KC focuses on international commercial and investment disputes, across an array of industry sectors and specialisms including energy, sports, mining, life sciences, fintech, fraud and enforcement. Ruth has advised clients on disputes arising in multiple jurisdictions and has appeared as counsel in 100+ arbitrations as well sitting regularly as arbitrator. She also appears frequently in the English High Court, in particular in proceedings in support of arbitration, as well as more generally in international commercial litigation.
Ruth writes and speaks regularly on a variety of international arbitration topics. Ruth is a member of the ICC UK Selection Subcommittee and a former YIAG Co-Chair.
Myrna Barakat Friedman
Independent Commercial Arbitrator, Mediator,
New York
Myrna Barakat Friedman is a New York–based independent commercial arbitrator and mediator, and Presiding Fellow and Founder of the Association of Commercial and Transactional ADR Professionals (ACT-ADR). She brings to her ADR practice more than 25 years of international corporate and transactional experience, having led cross-border transactions worldwide. Myrna began her career as an M&A and securities lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell, went on to serve as Chief M&A Counsel and Managing Director at CIT Group, and later founded MBCAP, a boutique strategic-growth advisory firm. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a CEDR Accredited Mediator, she holds both common law and civil law degrees from McGill University and is trilingual in English, French, and Arabic.
Ronnie Barnes
Cornerstone Research,
London
Ronnie Barnes coheads Cornerstone Research’s international arbitration and litigation practice. Dr. Barnes is an expert on accounting, damages, and valuation. He specializes in complex valuation methodologies, including estimating the cost of capital, determining country risk premia, and conducting valuation of complex financial instruments such as derivatives and structured finance products.
Dr. Barnes has provided written and oral testimony in multiple matters involving topics such as the tax treatment of hire purchase contracts; the assessment of damages resulting from the breach of a joint venture agreement; the economic equivalence of various financial derivatives; and the use of derivatives in alleged share price manipulation. Dr. Barnes has testified in cases heard by the International Court of Arbitration, the South African Competition Tribunal, and the Queen’s Bench of Alberta.
In addition to serving as a testifying expert, Dr. Barnes leads teams that support Cornerstone Research’s affiliated academic and practitioner experts. In this capacity, he has worked on numerous matters related to financial institutions and financial products, cases requiring the analysis of damages stemming from alleged misrepresentations and omissions in corporate disclosures, and other matters requiring sophisticated accounting, financial, and/or economic analysis.
Cavinder Bull SC
Chief Executive Officer,
Drew & Napier LLC, Singapore
Cavinder Bull, SC is the Vice-President of the SIAC Court of Arbitration, an ICCA Advisory Board Member and the Chief Executive Officer of Drew & Napier LLC, one of the largest law firms in Singapore. He was Vice-President of the Asia-Pacific Regional Arbitration Group and was on the World Bank Sanctions Board.
He has over 30 years of experience in international arbitration, acting as counsel in both commercial and investor-state cases, and as arbitrator in ICSID, PCA, NAFTA, ICC, SIAC, KCAB and LCIA arbitrations.
Cavinder studied law at Oxford University and Harvard Law School. He is called to the Bar in Singapore, New York and England & Wales.
Cristián Conejero
Cuatrecasas,
Santiago de Chile
Christián advises leading companies on domestic and international arbitration, covering commercial and investment arbitration. He is acknowledged in Chile and Latin America as a leading arbitration lawyer.
Before joining Cuatrecasas, he worked at several international law firms.
As counsel for Latin America, Spain and Portugal at the ICC International Court of Arbitration (Paris), he has supervised hundreds of arbitration cases, involving public and private companies from different sectors.
He has been a professor at the law school of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile for several years, and has lectured on commercial law, international contracts and international private law. He has also been a guest lecturer at several universities, including Universidad del Pacífico (Lima), Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (Sao Paulo) and IE Business School (Madrid). Previously, he lectured on commercial and investment arbitration at ESSEC Business School (Paris).
Ana Conover
Legal Counsel,
ICSID, Washington
Ana Conover is Legal Counsel on one of the Case Management Teams and leads the Statistics Team.
Ms. Conover joined ICSID in August 2015.
Prior to joining ICSID, she worked as a consultant in the International Investment Agreements (IIA) Section of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva, Switzerland (2014 – 2015), and as an associate at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle in Mexico City (2011 – 2013).
Ms. Conover holds degrees from The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the University of Geneva (MIDS LL.M.), and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (LL.B.).
She speaks English and Spanish.
Philippa Charles
Twenty Essex & ICC Court Member,
London
Philippa is a full time arbitrator at Twenty Essex Chambers in London. She moved to the Bar in 2023, following a 25-year career as a solicitor-advocate specialising in international arbitration, at Mayer Brown, and latterly as partner and head of international arbitration at Stewarts. Her current practice focuses on commercial arbitration (including disputes in the defence, energy, mining, finance, hospitality and telecoms sectors), and she has been appointed by the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, DIAC, SCC, FAI, AAA-ICDR and in ad hoc cases. She represents Ireland on the ICC Court, and is a member of the British Horseracing Authority judicial panel.
Robert Davidson
Executive Director of JAMS Arbitration Practice,
JAMS, New York
Bob is a full-time arbitrator and mediator and the Executive Director of JAMS Arbitration Practice. He joined JAMS in 2003 after 32 years at a leading international law firm where he was co-head of the litigation department. In two of his cases, he successfully represented the Industrial Development Authority of Ireland and Udaras na Gaeltachta in litigation brought against them in New York. He has tried cases and argued appeals in various state and federal courts in the United States, and has sat as Chair or as a party-appointed arbitrator in over 200 domestic and international arbitrations, including proceedings throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. He is listed by Chambers as one of the leading international arbitrators (Band 1). A detailed cv can be found at www.jamsadr.com.
James P Duffy IV
Bracewell LLP,
New York
J.P. Duffy is an international arbitration partner at Bracewell in New York, who manages all aspects of the international arbitration process, from strategic clause drafting, to lead merits and hearing counsel, through award enforcement and recovery. He represents clients across a range of industries in international arbitrations conducted under all major arbitral rules around the world, with a particular focus on the on the life sciences, aerospace & defense, energy, technology, and retail/hospitality sectors, as well as geographic expertise in the MENA region, the Indian sub-continent, Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia. In addition to his counsel work, J.P. routinely sits as an arbitrator in commercial disputes around the globe, and is qualified in New York, England & Wales and the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts.
Louis Flannery KC
Littleton Chambers,
London
Louis has been involved in arbitrations for more than three decades. He acts as counsel in arbitration and arbitration-related litigation (enforcement of awards, challenges to arbitrators and awards). He also sits regularly as sole, party-appointed, institution-appointed or presiding arbitrator, with more than 200 appointments so far. As arbitrator he specialises in international construction and engineering disputes, joint ventures, international trade contracts, and banking and finance agreements. He has appeared as expert witness in foreign courts, and as privilege master in English-seated arbitrations. He is co-author of Merkin and Flannery on the Arbitration Act 1996.
Year in, year out, Louis wins much coveted awards and prizes for being the world’s best dressed arbitrator. He claims to know something about arbitration but in reality he is still very much a student. He rarely misses Bloomsday in Dublin, and enjoys a nip of Redbreast 27 when he can afford it. He drives (among many old bangers) a white convertible 1970 Morris Minor. He has an unrivalled collection of 6mm Allen keys, unread books and champagne bottle caps. He enjoys sleeping and hates racism, sexism, bigotry.
Rt Hon Lord Justice Foxton
Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales
David Foxton became one of the judges of the Commercial Court in 2020.
He is authorised to sit in cases in the Financial List and the Competition Appeal Tribunal. He also sits in the Administrative Court and other King’s Bench work, including crime.
Mr Justice Foxton studied law at Oxford University and King’s College, London. He is the general editor of Mustill & Boyd Commercial and Investor State Arbitration and a general editor of Singapore International Arbitration Law and Practice. He was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 1989.
He practised as a barrister at Essex Court Chambers from 1989 to 2020, acting in a broad range of commercial disputes, and also accepted appointments as an arbitrator.
He was appointed a Recorder in 2009, and a Deputy High Court Judge in the Commercial Court and the Chancery Division in 2017. In 2020, he was appointed as a High Court Judge assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division (now King’s Bench Division) and nominated to sit as a Judge of the Commercial Court. In July 2024 he completed a two-year appointment as Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court. In June 2025, Mr Justice Foxton was announced as a Lord Justice of Appeal, starting his appointment on 15 January 2026.
John L. Gardiner
Of Counsel, International Litigation and Arbitration,
Skadden, New York
John L. Gardiner is global head of Skadden’s International Litigation and Arbitration Group. He concentrates his practice in the resolution of complex, high-exposure, multijurisdictional disputes before leading arbitral institutions as well as before federal and state courts in the United States.
Emma Garrett
SCC Arbitration Institute,
Stockholm
Emma Garrett is an Australian-qualified lawyer serving as Legal Counsel at the SCC Arbitration Institute in Stockholm. She holds an LL.M. in International Commercial Arbitration Law from Stockholm University.
Prior to joining the SCC, Emma practised in the international arbitration team at Ashurst in Frankfurt, having previously gained institutional experience at the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA).
Alongside her role at the SCC, Emma serves as an Associate Editor of the Kluwer Arbitration Blog and a steering committee member of ACICA45.
Anya George
Schellenberg Wittmer,
Zurich
Anya George is a Partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Dispute Resolution Group in Zurich. As a trilingual and dual qualified lawyer, she represents clients in complex international commercial and investment arbitration matters, as well as in enforcement and setting-aside proceedings before the Swiss Supreme Court.
Anya is considered as an “very knowledgeable, precise and creative lawyer” (Chambers) and “one of the best of her generation worldwide” (Who’s Who Legal), and is praised by clients for her “excellent responsiveness” and “complete control of her practice” (Legal 500). She is ranked as one of the most highly regarded arbitration practitioners under 45 worldwide (GAR 45 Under 45; Lexology Index: Thought Leader Global Elite; Chambers Global 2026).
David Herlihy SC
A&O Shearman,
Dublin/London
David is a partner in Allen & Overy’s International Arbitration Group. He has 20 years’ experience in international arbitration, with a focus on international commercial arbitration, investment treaty arbitration and public international law. David is qualified in Ireland, England & Wales and New York. He has an undefeated track record of success in investor-state arbitration, acting both for investors and for states over the last two decades. His recent matters include representing Vodafone in its investment treaty win against India (where the amount in dispute exceeded USD 5 billion); successfully defending Cyprus in a EUR 1 billion investment treaty claim arising out of the Eurozone financial crisis; and acting for two Dutch subsidiaries of NextEra Energy in ICSID claims resulting in an award of more than EUR 290 million against Spain under the Energy Charter Treaty). His victories have won International Arbitration Team of the Year twice, most recently in 2021 (Legal Business Awards). Law 360 has named David as an MVP for International Arbitration. He has also been recognised by multiple directors including Chambers, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration, which describe him as “an outstanding talent” and “nothing but exceptional”.
Rowena McCormack
DAC Beachcroft,
Dublin
Rowena is a leading commercial litigation and cyber disputes specialist, advising insurers, corporates, and boards on high-value, business-critical disputes and crisis situations.
She has extensive experience acting in complex commercial litigation, with a strong track record in the High Court, Commercial Court and Court of Appeal. Rowena is known for developing effective enforcement and litigation strategies in sensitive and high-stakes matters, often involving reputational risk and urgent decision-making. She also represents clients in arbitration and mediation, with a focus on resolving disputes efficiently while protecting broader commercial and strategic interests.
A recognised expert in cyber incident response, Rowena advises organisations and their insurers on the legal, regulatory, and litigation risks arising from cyber-attacks and data breaches. She is frequently instructed at the outset of incidents to coordinate legal strategy, manage engagement with the Data Protection Commission, and mitigate exposure to regulatory enforcement, third party claims, and follow-on litigation. Her advice is grounded in a clear understanding of how cyber events develop in practice and how they are scrutinised by regulators and courts.
Rowena’s practice sits at the intersection of disputes, regulation and digital risk, making her a trusted adviser in fast-moving, high-pressure situations where legal, commercial, and reputational considerations must be managed in parallel.
Michael Murray
Vice President of Product Strategy, Veritext Legal Solutions,
Los Angeles
Michael Murray is Vice President of Product Strategy at Veritext Legal Solutions, where he leads product vision at the intersection of AI, automation, and litigation technology. He presents CLE courses and hosts the webinar program for Veritext, which The National Law Journal has named the #1 Continuing Legal Education provider in the United States. A frequent speaker at industry conferences including ILTACON, Michael has shared his perspectives on responsible AI in litigation in Law360 and Law.com’s Legaltech News.
Kevin Nash
Director General, LCIA,
London
Kevin Nash is the Director General of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA). The Director General fulfils the role of Chief Executive Officer, with day-to-day responsibility for the conduct of the business of the LCIA, serves as the principal point of contact between the institution and its Board and Court, and represents the LCIA on the international stage. Kevin joined the LCIA after 13 years in Singapore where he served as the Registrar of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). In this capacity, Kevin led the 25-member Secretariat in the administration of thousands of international cases under all versions of the SIAC Rules and the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. As Registrar, Kevin advised the President and the SIAC Court of Arbitration, and took decisions on, procedural applications under the SIAC Rules, the appointment of arbitrators, and he was responsible for the review and approval of all awards issued in SIAC arbitrations. Kevin also led the drafting on the SIAC Rules 2016, SIAC Investment Arbitration Rules 2017, and SIAC Rules 2025.
Sylvia Noury KC
Freshfields,
London
Sylvia Noury KC is a partner in Freshfields’ International Arbitration Group and Head of African Disputes based in London, having previously practiced in both the Paris and New York offices of the firm. Specialising in commercial and investment treaty arbitrations, particularly in emerging markets, Sylvia has advocated before arbitral tribunals in English and Spanish. Sylvia has acted in major disputes in a variety of jurisdictions, with a focus on emerging markets, particularly in Africa, India, Latin America and the Middle East. She has extensive expertise in the energy, natural resources, telecoms and infrastructure sectors. Sylvia holds positions and memberships in a variety of arbitral institutions, including the Governing Board of the International Council of Commercial Arbitration (chairing ICCA’s Inclusiveness Committee), the Advisory Board of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration and the Advisory Council of Africa Arbitration. She was previously a member of the Board of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and the ICC UK’s Arbitration Committee. She is the Founder and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge (www.arbitrationpledge.com) .
Dyfan Owen
Ashurst Perkins Coie,
London
Dyfan Owen is a partner in our dispute resolution practice in London. He focuses on disputes arising out of the engineering, infrastructure and construction sectors and has advised on a number of high value disputes for clients globally. Dyfan has widespread experience in the resolution of disputes by arbitration; High Court litigation, expert determination, adjudication and mediation. Dyfan also sits as an arbitrator. Between 2015 and 2020 Dyfan led Ashurst’s disputes practice in the Middle East.
Recent matters on which Dyfan has acted include litigation and international arbitration relating to the construction and operation of several power plants in the Middle East, the construction of an airport in a GCC state, the construction of telecommunications infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, the construction of an offshore wind farm project in the UK, the construction of real estate developments in the UK and the construction of a petrochemical plant in the Caribbean.
Donna O’Leary
Head of NewCode AI,
Ireland
Donna is dual‑qualified solicitor (Ireland; England & Wales) and Head of Newcode AI Ireland. She specialises in advancing AI literacy across the legal profession, designing and delivering practical training programmes for practitioners, leadership teams, and operational groups. She is a lecturer at the Law Society of Ireland and delivers workshops that help legal teams bridge the AI literacy gap through strategic guidance and implementation support in line with professional obligations and legal requirements under the EU AI Act and UK AI Act. She is an expert advisor to Lawyers Innovative Training for European Law (LITEL2), a European Commission-funded project aimed at developing and delivering AI training to junior lawyers across Europe.
Kathleen Paisley
Partner,
Ambos Lawyers, Brussels
Kathleen Paisley is an international arbitrator with more than thirty years’ experience in both commercial and investor-State arbitration. She is triple qualified with degrees from the Yale Law School, a Master’s degree in Finance and has completed the Certified Public Accountancy exam.
Kathleen has specific industry expertise in technology (both medical and non-medical), biotech, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, construction, energy and hospitality.
Paisley’s areas of legal specialization include international law, intellectual property, data protection, cybersecurity, complex damages, competition/antitrust and EU law issues related to arbitration.
She brings a truly international approach to her work given her US nationality and training, European and US presences, and significant experience covering Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe. She is a member of the New York and DC Bars and has worked under the laws of England and Wales, Belgium and other civil jurisdictions.
In addition to her practice, Kathleen also speaks and publishes regularly on arbitration and has the honor of serving on the major international arbitration task forces established by ICCA and others on damages (quantification), data protection (co-chair), cybersecurity, as well as the Sedona Conference Drafting Committee on arbitration and the Mixed Mode International Task Force (enforcement).
Asade Pourmand
BAHR,
Norway
Asade Pourmand is a Managing Associate at BAHR in Oslo and Stockholm, specialising in complex cross-border arbitration, particularly post-M&A, technology, energy and infrastructure disputes. She has nearly a decade of experience in international arbitration, including with leading arbitration practices in Paris and Geneva. She is recognised by Chambers Global 2026 in Norway (Foreign Expert, Dispute Resolution) and Sweden (Expertise Based Abroad, Dispute Resolution).
Jonathon Redwood SC
Twenty Essex,
London
Jonathon specialises in international arbitration, arbitration-related litigation and complex commercial court litigation (including appeals). His expertise in international arbitrations extends to arbitrations seated in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New York under many different rules including LCIA, ICC, SIAC, UNCITRAL, HKIAC and ACICA. He is also regularly instructed in court proceedings involving arbitrations, including anti-suit injunctions, arbitrator challenges, interim measures and set-aside/enforcement proceedings. He is experienced in complex commercial litigation involving banking and finance, civil fraud and insurance. He regularly advises on complex issues of conflicts of law and public international law often involving multiple jurisdictions, including cross-border insolvency issues under the Model Law.
Benjamin Ross
van Hooft,
Paris
Benjamin Ross is an Irish citizen based in Paris, France. His practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation. He acts as counsel and secretary to the arbitral tribunal in arbitration proceedings conducted under the rules of arbitration of several institutions (AFA, CEPANI, CMAP, DIA, HKIAC, ICC, ICSID, LCIA, NAI, SCC, SIAC, Swiss Rules, VIAC, WIPO), as well as ad hoc proceedings, including under the UNCITRAL arbitration rules. He also takes part in arbitration-related proceedings before the French courts such as requests for interim measures and enforcement or annulment proceedings.
Benjamin is a member of the Arbitration Ireland Paris Chapter and an ICC YAAF Representative for Europe and Central Asia. He is also a former co-chair of the Paris Very Young Arbitration Practitioners group (PVYAP).
Ben Sanderson
Sanderson Arbitration,
Madrid
Ben Sanderson FCIArb is an independent arbitrator and arbitration counsel based in Madrid and London, with extensive knowledge of complex international commercial and investment treaty arbitrations.
Ben also serves as Adjunct Professor at IE University (Madrid) where he teaches International Investment Law & Arbitration.
In July 2026, Ben was designated by the Kingdom of Spain to the ICSID Panel of Conciliators. Ben also serves on the Sanctions Committee of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Ben has 20 years’ experience in international dispute resolution working at leading global law firms (DLA Piper, Skadden and Kirkland & Ellis). He has advised clients across a range of sectors, notably energy and natural resources, construction and infrastructure, and technology and telecoms. He has particular expertise in disputes arising in Africa and Latin America. Ben has represented both States and commercial parties in investment treaty claims, and he has advised international organisations on a range of public international law issues.
Ben is a member of ICC UK’s Arbitration and ADR Committee and he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Audley Sheppard KC
Twenty Essex/President of ICCA
Audley joined Twenty Essex in 2024 as a full-time arbitrator after a long career at Clifford Chance in London, where he was co-head of international arbitration, he has extensive experience of major disputes arising out of infrastructure and energy projects, and international trade and investment.
Audley is president of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration. He is a former chair of the Board and vice president of the Court of the LCIA, New Zealand member on the ICC International Court of Arbitration and Arbitration Commission, co-chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee, and rapporteur of the ILA Arbitration Committee.
He has been appointed as an arbitrator under the LCIA, ICC, ICSID, SIAC, HKIAC, LMAA and UNCITRAL Rules. He has a prominent role in sports arbitration, currently serving as chair of the Board of Sport Resolutions.
He has New Zealand and Ireland nationality.
Nish Shetty
Clifford Chance,
Singapore
Nish Shetty specialises in dispute resolution, with a particular focus on international arbitration, restructuring & insolvency and regulatory work. He regularly advises on complex cross-jurisdictional disputes including arbitrations and is widely recognised as a leader in the field of dispute resolution in the region.
Nish is on the panel of arbitrators of most of the key arbitral institutions in the world.
He is the founder and ex-chairman of the SIAC’s Users Council, the Co-Chair of the Council of Arbitration of MCIA and the first in Asia to be appointed as a Judge of Appeal on the FIA International Court of Appeal in Paris. He is also inducted in the Hall of Fame for arbitration in Legal 500 and named as a Thought Leader for Arbitration by Who’s Who Legal 2021.
Dr Anthony Sinclair
Quinn Emanuel LLP,
London
Dr. Anthony Sinclair specialises in international commercial arbitration, investment treaty arbitration, and public international law. His work spans a broad range of industry sectors, with particular focus on the oil and gas, energy and mining, telecommunications, infrastructure and utilities sectors, especially in emerging markets, as counsel and arbitrator. His experience includes handling disputes under ICC, LCIA, ICSID and UNCITRAL arbitration rules arising out of concession agreements, licences, production sharing and operating agreements, joint ventures, EPC and other construction agreements, host government and inter-governmental agreements, management and service agreements, distributorships, investment agreements, financing agreements and derivatives and post-M&A matters. He also has extensive experience as counsel for both private investors and States handling disputes under bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), and has also been counsel in several ICSID annulment proceedings. He has advised States on the negotiation and drafting of treaties, headquarters agreements and intergovernmental agreements
Anthony’s experience as arbitrator includes sitting on commercial and investor-state arbitral tribunals in ad hoc proceedings, under UNCITRAL Rules and under domestic legislation, and in institutional arbitration proceedings under the CRCICA, ICC and LCIA arbitral rules.
Claire Stockfort
Quadrant Chambers,
London
Claire Stockford specialises in arbitration, both international commercial arbitration and investor state disputes. Claire was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1999. Before joining Quadrant, Claire spent more than 20 years practising from the London offices of international and UK law firms, for the last seven of those years as a partner. Claire advises and advocates for clients in disputes across a range of industries from oil and gas to hospitality, concerning jurisdictions as diverse as Kazakhstan and Madagascar. Recently, Claire’s practice has focused on renewables, including solar, on-shore and off-shore wind and battery storage. She is particularly interested in climate change disputes. Claire’s experience encompasses arbitrations under many of the most frequently encountered arbitration rules including the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) rules.
Jacomijn (Jackie) van Haersolte-van Hof
Fountain Court Chambers,
London
Jacomijn (Jackie) van Haersolte-van Hof is a highly regarded independent arbitrator, Professor of Law at Leiden University, and former Director General of the LCIA (2014-2024). She has acted as arbitrator and counsel in numerous ICC, LCIA, ICSID, UNCITRAL and SIAC matters, with expertise spanning commercial, investment, energy, M&A, transport, commodities, shipping and insurance disputes, including cases involving sovereign states. Before leading the LCIA, she practiced as an arbitrator and counsel at leading international firms and her own boutique practice. She remains a prominent figure in international arbitration through her academic work and her institutional appointments. As of 1 July 2026, Jackie is a member of the Challenge Committee of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute.
Thomas M. Ventrone Esq.,
AAA-ICDR,
New York
Tom Ventrone is responsible for oversight of the administration and management of all arbitration and dispute resolution cases filed within the Commercial and Construction divisions of the American Arbitration Association and the International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR-NY). This includes the direct supervision of senior staff, including attorneys, who provide high-quality case management services to parties, counsel, and arbitrators who participate in the process. The AAA presently initiates over 12,000 new B2B disputes each year, including over 800 new matters filed within the ICDR involving parties from more than 96 countries. In addition to his role as manager of case administration activities, Tom serves as a member of the AAA-ICDR operations management team, working with fellow vice presidents and senior management to develop, refine, and promote the AAA-ICDR’s service offerings. He has also served as a staff facilitator for Arbitrator training sessions and is a trained mediator.
Mr. Ventrone spent many years serving the public in the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey. He served as the manager of several departments within the Essex County (Newark, New Jersey) Family Court, including the management of several Complementary Dispute Resolution (Court-annexed) programs such as the Family Mediation Program and Child Support/Domestic Violence Hearing Officer Program. He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar and has served as a state-certified mediator.
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